When the shot girl gets out of the mass grave; when in your own family you discover a history of naked passion and crime; when an artist's great dream comes true in front of an audience of one; when a murder investigation in a foggy winter city reveals the cabalistic depths of the dispute between Light and Darkness; when any overseas landscape, like a shell - a precious pearl, preserves a story of love or hate, comedy or drama... then it becomes clear that every fate is worthy of telling if the keen eye and sensitive ear of the writer are turned to it.